Saturday, 16 June 2018

FG Conducted 4,349 Free Surgeries, Others In 2016

Prof. Isaac Adewole, the Minister of Health, has
announced that the Federal Government has conducted free 4,349 surgeries and
17, 793 health screenings for poor Nigerians across the country.

The Ministry had set a target to deliver 10,150
free surgeries and screenings to help alleviate the sufferings of indigent
Nigerians.

In addition to this, the ministry also carried out
over 200,000 nutritional interventions for Nigerians suffering from malnutrition
in the north east. The intervention has since scaled to become a full fledged
project, the Health Sector Nutrition and Emergency Response delivering a set of
comprehensive health interventions and emergency services in the troubled
region.

His words: “Government must pay for those who
cannot afford healthcare.”

Adewole said that the programme is a promise kept
by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, which has a pro-poor universal
health coverage agenda.

The Minister said that the programme tagged,
“Better Health for All” is still on going and will be scaled up in the year,
2017.

You would recall that in July, 2016 the Federal
Ministry of Health launched the Rapid Result Initiative (RRI) Programme to
carry out surgeries and screening to indigent Nigerians across the Country.

“The programme was borne out of plan to respond to
the critical needs of the people and deliver on the mandate of promoting health
with focus on Access, Affordability and Demand,” he said.

Adewole said that the Programme encapsulates a set
of initiatives develop as a strategy to actualize the vision of the present
administration to produce quick and visible impacts that will affect the lives
of every Nigerian especially the most vulnerable and the poor in our society.

The six components of the programme include
Surgical interventions, Screening of Nigerians for major Diseases,
Revitalization of PHCs, Mutual Health Assurance, Treatment of 200,000 Severely
Acutely Malnourished children and operationalizing the Nigeria Centre for
Disease Control.

Mrs. Chioma Adanma Umeha is a journalist of over two decades experience. At the moment, she is the Health Editor of Newswatch Times, Lagos, Nigeria.
A graduate of Mass Communications from Anambra State University, Enugu, she also holds a Masters Degree in International Relations and Strategic Studies from the Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos.

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Mrs. Chioma Adanma Umeha is a journalist of over two decades experience. At the moment, she is the Health Editor of Newswatch Times, Lagos, Nigeria.
A graduate of Mass Communications from Anambra State University, Enugu, she also holds a Masters Degree in International Relations and Strategic Studies from the Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos.